Quote Originally Posted by real_cola
One interesting thing i have read about last US Census is that among all the people that declared being either Ukrainian and/or of Ukrainian descent, only 13% something said they spoke Ukrainian.All it suggest though is that there sure are a lot of people that just because they had a Ukrainian grandfather or a grandmother they probably never knew, think it entitles them to declare they are Ukrainian or have noticeable ukrainian roots.
The same thing goes in Russia. Of course it's not 13%, nevertheless only 1,8 out of 2,9 milllion Ukrainians in Russia speak Ukrainian.

http://perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/lang.xls

By the way, why would Ukrainians living in Soviet Russia be that afraid to report themselves in a census? The whole idea looks bizarre to me.